Thanks to those who gave me pointers about   the installation.
After I re-partitioned, mounted (I finally figured out I only have to
highlight and PRESS ENTER on the partition to mount and format!) and
installed a minimal graphics system, everything went fine.

I have a couple of questions:

1. This is the first time I am using 'rpm' to install.   It seems very
slow. Usually I take the ./configure, make, make install route. So I dont
know if it is normal. We have given 5% CPU of our 350mips z/800 to it.  We
are NOT running on IFL. This is not a cap. We have also given it 512MB
memory.  I am surprised that 'yast' and 'rpm' are very slow, in fact
slower than the celeron 400 with 64MB I used to run with. What monitoring
and probing tools do people generally use (MRTG? Cacti? ) ?

2. I installed all the software (the BLT) through yast but it does not
seem to have installed an ftp server. Most like apache, postfix, mysql etc
got installed, why not ftp? So, I am thinking of installing wu-ftp or
nc-ftp. Wonder what others run?

I am very concerned about the slowness. We need to run MQ Series on this.

TIA

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